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Published: 2007-11-29 04:41:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 9070; Favourites: 116; Downloads: 324
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I know I have not posted in a very long time.I have been so busy with school that I just have not had any time to make any new art.
Soooo....
I am posting something I made for a magazine assignment I had in class but decided not to use. I am taking the magazine in a different direction.
This is my rendition of the Design Machine. What I mean is that as a Graphic Design student you are thrown through this process that destroys your capability to be original. We are supposed to be learning but instead we are instilled with the opinions and tastes of our professors rather than our own personal reflection of design. This is a scary thing to think about for everyone out there getting their degree. Is it worth losing yourself for a piece of paper? And if you have not thus far how can you still keep up your grades while maintaining your integrity as a designer.
The machine is as follows...
You graduate high school and head to college.
Point Line and Plane is shoved down your throat until you are unable to break the laws of the holy grid.
Critiques are never what they should be, noone wants to insult anyone, you never get any real feedback from your peers.
The cannon symbolizes color theory and its total disregard for breaking the formulas we are taught.
In the end all of our work is only to create an impressive portifolio. Have we learned as much as we should? Does the portifolio matter if we have no personal identity or style? What makes us stand out from the thousands of other designers out there.
And in the end when we graduate the corporate monster eats us up and we either become another faceless pawn in the working world, or we fail and end up jobless.
Lol, I know this is longer than hell, but I am actually passionate about this topic
. Sorry....what I meant to say was interperet it for yourself . I hope you enjoy.(and yes that is a dog peeing on their heads) Its symbolic.
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Look, graphic design is about becoming a translator, someone will give you a message and you will convert it to a graphical piece.
In such a way, this does mean you just do what a client wants you to do...
but... is that it? of course not...
You aint a machine, you aint just a tool which will do what others want. That's the reason why some designers are diferent of others, cause even if you do what you are hired to do, YOU DO WHAT YOU WANT, and what you like most. You add your own language, your own spirit to the piece, even if its a piece that was requested by someone else, a client.
In fact, that you are concerned about being unique, isnt something that goes against graphic design, is the basis of the best graphic design of all. the incredible hard task of making something that someone asks you to do, but at the same time adding your heart on it and making that piece of work yours, and so, unique.
So dont worry, and never give up your unique-ity. Its what makes you special.
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this makes college seem incredibly scary...i'm still taking graphic design in college, i'm confident that i'll get a nice job, at least i hope i will
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im studying graphic design and its so great and also so hard but im up to the task 
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Me and my brother are going to the same college for graphic design. We were just discussing this topic today. Love it.
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I am actually suffering the "piteous critique syndrome" from my professors. Viewing the machine as you see it made me realize the importance of stepping aside and learn also by yourself. I canΒ΄t express with words how GRATEFUL I am...just...thanks for sharing this diagram!!!
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For me its about learning from yourself and forcing others to really tell you how they feel. I know that with every class I have no matter how much good I may hear, I always ask for at least one negative so that people who are afraid to speak the truth have to say something.
BTW, I really like your gallery! Alot of typographic experimentation.
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Jajjajajajaja hacelo!!! Disfrutalo, es una de las carreras mΓ‘s retribuyentes.
PD: tu firma me descostillΓ³ de la risa
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Graphic Design is a fun major, but its really competitive and you have to have a really nice design aesthetic. Sometimes it gets frustrating creating everything with the focus of this major portfolio instead of for the sake of just learning some new techniques. So many people do design now that it just bothers me that we are all not taught to nurture what makes us unique within out set of design skills.
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